The last few weeks I’ve been busy getting ready for and presenting the company at the Los Alamos Next Big Idea Fair. About three weeks ago I had a rather frustrating epiphany. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier, but with much regret I missed something obvious and very important. In 2011,… Continue reading Marketing material 101
Author: jbattles
Los Alamos Black Hole surplus closing 9/23
Which much sadness and dismay I echo the announcement that the Black Hole of Los Alamos is closing this weekend. Unfortunately for me, this means I don’t have easy access to surplus science, electronics, and scrap material anymore. About two years ago Ed Grothus (or Ed v1.0 as I called him) died and his son-in-law… Continue reading Los Alamos Black Hole surplus closing 9/23
Next Big Idea Fair, Los Alamos Booth
… and what it took to get ready. Here’s a link to the event LA NBIF 2012 and here’s the link to the announcement on the companies website: MSI NBIF event. It was an absolutely crazy few weeks trying to get ready for the event. In about three weeks I got the brochure, website, white… Continue reading Next Big Idea Fair, Los Alamos Booth
Almost 1 year later…
It was about June 16th of 2011 that I left my day job. Here I am almost 12 months later, two product demos and zero customers wondering exactly why I quit my day job. Well it has been an interesting learning experience. The main things I’ve learned on the business side are the following: Make… Continue reading Almost 1 year later…
Xilinx ISE 14 is out
Xilinx has released there new version 14 of ISE. 5.99 GB Linux 64 bit download ! What are they thinking ? Don’t they know I can only download at 160 KB/s ? John